Holiday Cheer Sent Overseas

The UWG campus community has begun a Holiday Cheer for Soldiers gift drive for students, alumni, family and friends of faculty and staff serving overseas.

Using the U.S. postal services Priority Mail Flat-Rate boxes at a discounted price, packages can be mailed to military personnel for as little as $4.95.

“If it fits, it ships” is the motto that reminds senders that weight does not affect the price. All U.S. post offices, including the Campus Mail provider at UWG, provide boxes free of charge.

The boxes range from a single VHS video mailer for $4.95, two medium boxes for $10.35 and a special military mail price of $11.95 for the largest box.

To guarantee delivery in time for the holidays, packages should be shipped by December 11. The priority mailings can also be sent overseas throughout the year to service men and women.

Contents can include inexpensive toiletries, non-perishable food items, batteries, books, disposable cameras and clothing. Anyone interested in sending a gift package can go to the Operation Military Pride website at www.operationmilitarypride.org for a more detailed list of items that can be sent.

UWG faculty and staff have provided these names and addresses:

Regina Mailloux, Office of the Registrar, said her niece is a supervising nurse in an immunization clinic on a base in Iraq. She would like holiday lollipops and band-aids to give out during the holidays. SGT Melissa DiMaggio, 248th ASMC, Phipps TMC, APO AE 09391.